Posts tagged with the "Application Quality" tag
The Speed of Diligence
February 13, 2012 | Be the first to comment! One of the oldest conversations on record is the discussion of how to measure effective software development. One of the most used, most abused and least understood metric is “velocity.” Think Corvettes versus Volkswagens. Just to keep terms straight, velocity is the sum of the estimates of delivered/accepted features per iteration. …Read More
Crash Course on CRASH Report, part 3: Technical Debt
February 9, 2012 | 1 Comment Money isn’t everything…yeah, right! There are few, if any, who are so idealistic in this world that they will actually believe money isn’t everything. It doesn’t matter if it’s the scheduled time for a television show or a high-level decision to produce a controversial product, the motivation is money. Need more convincing? …Read More
Will CIOs Fiddle as IT Burns?
February 7, 2012 | Be the first to comment! Let’s face it, monopolies are evil. They distort markets, result in higher prices and stifle innovation. This is true whether the monopoly controls an industry, a sport or a way of thinking. John D. Rockefeller’s Standard Oil created artificially high prices until broken up, the NFL resisted updating its rules …Read More
Sacking the Hackers
February 2, 2012 | Be the first to comment! I couldn’t let this week go by without making at least one mention of what is taking place this weekend. This annual event held every year since the year I was born brings most of the United States to a mesmerized halt on the first Sunday in February…and this year …Read More
Mobilizing Security Failure
January 31, 2012 | Be the first to comment! Legendary football coach Vince Lombardi once said that "Winning isn't everything; it's the only thing." But decades after Lombardi's Green Bay Packers dominated the NFL, a new slogan joined the sports lexicon - "moral victory." A moral victory, as best I can tell, is the "power of positive thinking" approach to …Read More
Who Secures Security?
January 26, 2012 | 1 Comment One of my favorite television shows these days is one of the highly successful USA Network dramas called “White Collar.” The plot revolves around a stellar FBI agent and a highly educated criminal mastermind, who specializes in art thefts and forgeries, whom the FBI agent brought to justice. The FBI …Read More
Caution: Merger Ahead
January 23, 2012 | 1 Comment Our economy goes through periods of intense merger and acquisition activity, which often reshapes entire industries dramatically in one fell swoop. And when these mergers happen, there's always an issue that arises. Sometimes that issue is about competitiveness, like during the recent acquisition talks between Sprint and T-Mobile. Other times it's …Read More